Headphones.. expensive ones last just as long as middling ones. Often the expensive break even faster.

That’s funny. I specifically told my husband not to spend a ton on my engagement ring and not to buy a diamond. One, I don’t particularly like diamonds. To me, they are boring. Two, I work with kids. I didn’t want to have to worry about ruining it or taking it off constantly to avoid ruining it and then risk…

I bought some pants at Brooks Brothers and then immediately gained enough weight for them to be unattractive.

My black cashmere cardigan sweater. It’s “too good” for everyday wear, thus it sits in my closet.

Diamond engagement ring. Remember studying all the variables (don’t remember one thing about ‘em and not worth googling) that applies to a quality diamond. Now with two kids and a mortgage, look at that thing and think, “wonder if I can get low 6 figures for that useless symbol.”

Jeans. I bought a pair of “quality” Ralph Lauren jeans, and that’s just a dumb thing to do. Not only do they not wear better or last longer than regular jeans (say, a Costco brand like Lucky Star) but you actually have to say idiot shit like “LET ME CHANGE OUT OF MY JEANS FIRST” when people want to, like, go sit on…

I finally bit the bullet and bought a well-fitting, high-quality wool peacoat last year. Then I lost 50 pounds and it became wayyyy too big.

My fiance is a real clothes horse and she got me some top-of-the-line Diesel jeans, which ripped out the crotch at least a year sooner than any pair of Old Navy jeans i’ve owned. So your math equation did not work out for me so much there.

And the dryer is a clothes-killer, too. I’ve basically stopped putting anything I want to last for a while in the dryer, and just let it air-dry instead. (Think about all the lint that accumulates in the lint trap every time you dry a load of clothes—that’s all cloth fibers from your clothes, and your clothes are now…

I think another point that’s missing, or I missed it, is that people tend to over-wash their clothes. If you’re like me and sit in an office in front of a computer all day, do your shirts really need to be washed after every wear? After 3 wears? After 10? I wear an undershirt and don’t sweat while I’m working because…